According to multiplereports, Darth Sidious himself (aka "Palpatine Dmitry") claimed a seat on the port city's council after securing 54.4 percent of the vote in Odessa's Poselok Kotovskogo. If only the actual Palpatine's rise had been so streamlined, the Star Wars prequels would've been a lot more bearable.

Still, Palpatine Dmitry's success left at least one politician bewildered.

"I can't understand, but all the same respect, the choice of those who voted for the current government," Odessa mayoral candidate Aleksandr Borovik wrote on Facebook. "We all have our own choices and their future. But it's above my understanding. People, what's wrong with you?"

A Trust Affairs party candidate, the 24- or 25-year-old Dmitry apparently lists his occupation as emperor at the Emperor Palpatine Finance Group. Presumably, the company finances clone armies and moon-sized space stations.